Category Archives: Animation

The deeply personal implications of China’s One Child Policy (1979 – 2015) from the perspective of a family that conceived two children during this time, explored in a powerful, award-winning short by animator Siqi Song.

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An impressive recent release from students of the prestigious French animation school GOBELINS, l’école de l’image featuring a scientist who finds his world falling apart after a strange encounter throws his lifelong skepticism into doubt.

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A BAFTA-winning student film from Leo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert & Oscar Malet of French animation collective MegaComputeur in which dauntless, ultra-cool rescuers Salami and Parmesan attempt to save a skier trapped at the top of a mountain.

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Another fascinating animation from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt – this time, the most full-on astronomical things that are not black holes. To wit:

Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence to the death of something majestic.

Previously: What If A City Gets Nuked?